Information Bytes 1.0
(Leaving this as 1.0 in case I want to do more catch-up posts in the future.)
It's one of those movie-style spring mornings in Manhattan today. When Elbow's One Day Like This came on shuffle, I definitely felt like I was in a movie. We're a little over midway through the semester, especially now that NYC's unseasonably cold winter is well and truly gone. We've had some spring showers and 5th Avenue sometimes feels like a wind tunnel, but it's a great time to be alive. Midterm exams are over, professors appear to have stopped colluding to make papers all fall due on the same day, and everyone's beginning to think about summer.
This shot was taken in Washington Square Park on Tuesday. The park's the closest thing NYU has to a campus, and there's something incredible about sitting out in the sun, listening to the lunchtime jazz, and working on a Spanish oral presentation due in two hours.
Speaking of classes -- next semester's still up in the air, but I think I have some of my picks narrowed down. As I mentioned in a previous post, I want to take a law class, and I'll officially start some major classes. As it turns out, the NYU journalism institute has a media-criticism track alongside its regular classes on reporting. Personally, I think "hating on media", as it's been called, would be much more interesting to study. I'm not spending too much time thinking about it given I'm a freshman, but I'm debating between a double major journalism and politics, most likely), doing an inter-school transfer for a double-major in Media, Culture, an Communications (MCC) and politics, or simply creating my own major in the area of cryptography/politics/activism/media criticism. Next semester, at least, I'm looking at an intro law class, an intro MCC class, quantitive stats in politics, and the intro journalism class every student takes before choosing a track. All said, I think the only clear thing, major-wise, is that I'll be spending an awful lot of time in my advisor's office next semester.
I have a couple of plans in the works right now, but I don't want to speak too much about them until they're more concrete. Tentatively, I'll say that I'll probably be spending most of my time in the US this summer, and that, whatever else, I want to devote a chunk of time to writing projects (both fiction and non-fiction) I've been neglecting. One random thought I had was that I wanted to write an essay as a post-postscript to Consider This, the series of essays I wrote about physical disability. It's been almost two years since it was published, and I'd love to revisit it after moving to the US and having a year of college under my belt. Stay tuned.
